–Kevin Barrett’s May 14, 2017Truth Jihad Radio Show : Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould discuss their article “The History of the Neocon Takeover of the USA.” What precisely is neo-conservatism, and how did it come to power? Most of the scholarship focuses on Leo Strauss and his cult followers – the hard line Zionists who seized power in the wake of the 9/11 coup d’état. But Gould and Fitzgerald have sketched an alternate history.They focus on Machiavellian “ex-Trotskyite” James Burnham – whose real-life example inspired the dystopian vision of George Orwell. They also name Zbigniew Brzezinski as a key neocon, arguing that this hard-line Machiavellian philosophy took over during first term of Jimmy Carter, long before the arrival of George W. Bush.This is historical revisionism at its finest! Listen to the broadcast here.